to: remove redundant references and provisions relating to ‘benevolent homes’; exempt from the veterans’ entitlements exemption test payments associated with expenses for part-time work experience under a labour market program; require partners of persons claiming or receiving a service pension or income support to claim a comparable foreign pension; provide that arrears payments of comparable foreign pensions are treated as periodic payments; and clarify that the value of certain superannuation investments are not disregarded for the purposes of deemed income rules and asset deprivation rules.

to enable the Repatriation Commission to determine, by legislative instrument, that Australian personnel involved in the maintenance, transporting or decontamination of aircraft used in the British nuclear test program are eligible for compensation and health care under the Acts.

in relation to: the date of effect for periodic impairment compensation; the inclusion of a lifestyle factor in the calculation of interim permanent impairment compensation; recalculation of permanent impairment compensation for certain people; an increase to the rate of periodic compensation payable for dependent children; expansion of the eligibility criteria for the special rate disability pension; superannuation; remittal power of the Veterans’ Review Board; increase in the membership of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission; and access to rehabilitation and compensation for certain categories of persons; the

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

and

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

to increase the compensation for financial and legal advice; five Acts to: expand the lump sum compensation options for wholly dependent partners of deceased members; and require that eligible claims for existing conditions aggravated by defence service on or after 1 July 2004 be determined under the

to: provide that Australian Defence Force members with British nuclear test defence service are eligible for pensions, treatment and other benefits; lower the age of domicile of choice from 21 to 18 years of age; and cease eligibility for war widow or widower pension for widows and widowers who enter into a de facto relationship prior to claiming the pension;

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

,

Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

and

Defence Service Homes Act 1918

to provide that certain submarine special operations between 1978 and 1992 will be reclassified as operational and qualifying service; and

Defence Service Homes Act 1918

and

Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

to reclassify certain service in Ubai in Thailand as qualifying service.

to: increase the single maximum basic rate of veterans' affairs pensions from 20 September 2009; index veterans' affairs pensions using the Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index; index veterans' affairs pensions using a combined couple benchmark; increase veterans' affairs pensions to compensate for anticipated increases in the living cost index arising from the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; increase the income test taper rate and remove the additional income test free area for dependent children; introduce a Work Bonus so that certain income is disregarded as ordinary income; close the pension bonus scheme from 20 September 2009; increase the pension age for persons other than veterans from 65 to 67 years; enable certain veterans' affairs pension recipients to apply for an advance of veterans' affairs entitlements;

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

,

Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

,

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

,

Social Security Act 1991

and

Social Security (Administration) Act 1999

to consolidate a number of smaller payments and allowances into one pension supplement;

Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986

and

Social Security Act 1991

to allow veterans' affairs pensioners to transition to the new arrangements; and

Aged Care Act 1997

in relation to the calculation of total assessable income for residents in aged care.